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Trevor Lord is currently Managing Director of both LORD
Consulting and AVO New Zealand. Holding a Masters Degree in Electrical
and Electronic Engineering from the University of Canterbury,
NZ, Trevor has worked with the power and electrical industries
for some 30 years in a wide variety of roles. As a passionate
advocate for the image and customer respect of the Industry, he
is internationally known and respected for his efforts to support
this vision via engineering expertise, training and information
programmes, innovative technical solutions to Industry reliability
and safety problems, and regular Industry Conferences aimed at
raising and unifying the levels of Industry best practice. Trevor
brings a wealth of practical knowledge and experience to the critically
important emerging field of on-line monitoring of electrical network
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Nick Chandler has worked in the
electrical industry for over 35 years as an electrician,
electrical
fitter, power systems technician, contract manager, electrical
engineer, and currently provides electrical consulting
and training services throughout New Zealand and overseas.
Primary work areas include the high voltage generation,
transmission and distribution industry and specialised
work relating to testing and inspection of electrical installations,
appliances, fittings and related equipment. Other work
includes electrical fault and incident investigations.
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Barry Clegg spent 20 years as an engineer
with UK Electricity Boards and a similar period working in
many parts of the world with several fault location equipment
manufacturers. He has himself developed new ideas and manufactured
and marketed several instruments. In addition, he has undertaken
training worldwide and maintains a knowledge of current developments
through his many international contacts in a wide range of
companies and authorities.
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Dr John Densley, Densley Consulting, Toronto,
Canada: John Densley graduated from Queen Mary College, University
of London with a B. Sc. (Eng) and Ph.D. in 1964 and 1967.
He spent 32 years in research into aging and diagnostics
of electrical insulation, particularly in medium- and high-voltage
cables at the National Research Council of Canada, and at
the Ontario Hydro Research Division, which later became Ontario
Power Technologies and then Kinectrics. He retired from Kinectrics
in 2000 and is now a consultant. Dr. Densley is a Fellow
of the IEEE, and is active in the IEEE PES Insulated Conductors
Committee (ICC), CIGRE and IEC. He is the Chair of groups
in ICC responsible preparing guides on the testing of medium
voltage cables under wet conditions and also on the field
testing of cables using VLF. He is a Registered Professional
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Dr Michel Duval obtained a B.Sc. and PhD.
in chemical engineering in 1966 and 1970 and has worked for
IREQ (Hydro-Quebec, Canada) since 1970. M. Duval is well-known
for his «Triangle method» of DGA interpretation,
used worldwide. He has developed and promoted the use of
gas-in-oil standards, now commercially available, for evaluating
the accuracy of DGA results and diagnoses. He has established
the typical and pre-failure levels of gas formation in equipment
in service, used as a reference by the industry. He has also
made significant contributions in the field of electrical
insulating oils and polymers. He has been the Convenor of
several IEC working groups and CIGRE task forces (the latest
one, TF15, concerning on-line gas monitors, DGA in LTCs and
in non-mineral oils) and the principal author of 5 IEC international
standards on DGA. M. Duval holds 15 patents and is the author
of more than 70 scientific and technical papers, books and
international standards. He is a Fellow of IEEE and of the
Chemical Institute of
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Graham Hodge has been working in the
electricity industry for over 25 years. After graduating
from University of Canterbury with both a B.E. Electrical
(Hons) and M.E. Mechanical in 1977, he joined the Christchurch
MED and worked in network operations and as system planning
engineer before joining Electricorp Marketing in 1987 as
commercial manager. Graham was a prime mover in the formation
of Southpower in New Zealand, and more recently managed a
technology start up company. He is now an independent strategic
advisor in a variety of converging utility fields ranging
from smart metering systems and power line communications,
through to building robust economic deployment business cases
for new technologies. Graham has been recently assisting
Lord Consulting, focusing on the issues surrounding how best
to maximize the economic life of power network assets by
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Peter
Smith is a transformer specialist, providing consultancy
services and training throughout Australasia in specification,
design, construction, testing, failure investigation and
condition assessment of Power and Distribution transformers
used for both industrial and supply utility applications.
Peter has over 37 years experience, working in England, Australia
and China for companies including Hawker Siddeley, Tyree
Electrical Company, Westinghouse, A.W Tyree Transformers
and ABB.
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Wolfgang Degen has almost 40 years of experience in the industry, last position as managing director of development/production of Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS) with SIEMENS/ Germany. He offers a wide range of knowledge within the field of substation techniques and technology.
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